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PGA: A Dynamic Network of Individual Democratically Elected Legislators

PGA was established in 1978-1979 by concerned parliamentarians from around the world to take joint action on global problems which could not be solved by any one government or parliament. While its initial driving force was the critical need for disarmament, Global Action today works on an expanded list of global issues such as fostering democracy, conflict prevention and management, international law and human rights, population, empowerment of women, and economic reform.

PGA is an association of over 1300 individual parliamentarians in 100 countries. Its membership is a concentration of high-level politicians, including Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers, and Chairs of Finance, Foreign Affairs, Population, Health, and Defense Committees. Many of PGA’s members have left parliament for higher government posts. Some of our ex-members have served as President of Iceland, President of Botswana, Prime Minister and President of Trinidad & Tobago, and Vice President of the Dominican Republic. Also, as an NGO of parliamentarians, PGA is the parliamentary link with civil society groups.

PGA contributed to the creation of the ICC, and is conducting a global Campaign for the Universality of the ICC since the adoption of the Rome Statute in 1998.

PGA Members have led, authored and achieved ratifications of the Rome Statute in 63 countries of the current 108 States parties to the Rome Statute, including the recent ratifications of Kenya, Dominican Republic, Mexico, the Comoros Islands, Japan, Madagascar, Suriname and the Cook Islands.

PGA’s Secretariat operates from its Headquarters/United Nations Office (in New York) and its International Judicial Institutions/PGA Foundation Office (in The Hague).

PGA has general consultative status at the UN ECOSOC, is member of the Steering Committee of the International Coalition of NGOs for the International Criminal Court, and of the Steering Committee of Justice for Darfur Campaign,

Updated 10 November 2008